Mark Rowlands ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030601 02:49]: > On Saturday 31 May 2003 5:18 pm, Doug Poland wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote:
> > > OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it > > > came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that > > > time. > > > So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from > > > ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort of works. It > > > starts up, but crashes when you try to save anything (dies with an > > > internal error). > > > The README claims it works with FreeBSD 4.5 and up, but I'll believe that > > > when I see it doing so. > > > What are others' experiences so far? Is there some undocumented hoop one > > > must jump through to get it to behave itself? > > I had been using linux binaries with success. I've been trying to build > > native 1.0.3 but the build keeps failing. I've never been able to compile > > any version of OO.org from source. > why not use the freebsd package ? :- > http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ Yes, but does it actually work reliably? I would have expected the official port to achieve basic function, but it observably doesn't. Hence asking. - d. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
